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Here’s what I’m obsessing over lately:

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 22 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[wakingfromthewater]

Still thinking about this mobile game ad I got. You will f**k increasingly large creatures.

[rabidchild]

I hope you are all being radically pro-transgender this month. It is time to become more radically pro-transgender. Or possibly… to even trans your gender??

Or you know at the VERY least be very silly about the idea of gender this month, thank you

[koolthing0]

[sailatina3]

[maidthings]

say what you will about john mcafee (and you should.) but that guy could fucking post

[maidthings]

all timer

[maidthings]

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[puckeater]

i was like, mcafee? as in the anti-virus software? and then a cursory glance at his wikipedia page was similar to being punched in the face multiple times

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

first pride month without charlie kirk

[rabidchild]

I hope you are all being radically pro-transgender this month. It is time to become more radically pro-transgender. Or possibly… to even trans your gender??

Or you know at the VERY least be very silly about the idea of gender this month, thank you

[catgirltitties]

This is absolutely frying me omggg

[radiofreederry]

Cool

[am-josie]

Uhm,, sorry sweatie, but we have no principles and are glad to abandon your human rights for a handful of votes that we're not gonna get anyway bc we don't believe in offering anything to anyone either 😍🥰😘

[quasi-normalcy]

It seems like if you’re concerned about literal fascism, mass demonization and rollback of the human rights of unpopular subaltern groups is something that should the fucking well concern you.

[regicide1997]

first they came for the trans people, but I did not speak up, because I was too concerned with the abstract concept of opposing fascism to actually do anything

[regicide1997]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the problem with genetically modified crops is not so much the genetic modification but the patenting of genetic codes (and crops in general) as a tool of maintaining agricultural imperialism, and for this reason I can't talk to most people about GMOs

[depsidase]

[rabidchild]

What you need to hold in your heart is that Sam Altman said “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

This is what AI technologists believe they are feverishly working towards. A future where intelligence is considered a commodity. Can you imagine what it will mean under the logic of capitalism if companies seeking profit at all costs are built around intelligence as their product?

I’m begging you to think about if that’s the future YOU want, and if not, to move accordingly in your actions and words.

[apricops]

can I just say that we all owe Kojima an apology for Metal Gear Solid 2? He looked right into the camera and said “the future of information control will not be censorship, it will be drowning people in trivial noise and misinformation until people partition themselves into their own separate realities” in TWO THOUSAND AND ONE. Three years before Facebook existed. Kojima gave us the biggest Babe-Ruth-pointing-at-the-sky called shot of all time and we weren’t ready for it.

[thepplprty]

Part of the reason why I'm so passionate about being against the whole 'kill all men' mindset is because it does affect me directly as a trans woman.

If you're the type of person who automatically assumes men are bad people, then I have news for you. That assumption isn't going to wait until I tell you I'm trans. You're going to—whether subconsciously or consciously—assume I am just a man, and even after I tell you I am a trans woman your perception of me will still be permanently altered.

Discriminatatory beliefs aren't going to wait for me to tell you my pronouns.

I grew up in Florida, where at the age of twelve I was a victim of terror campaigns telling adults that I was going to sexually assault their children in the bathrooms, specifically because of the reason that 'men are all evil.'

I went through way too much at the hands of those people to see practically every ""leftist"" online continuing to push that ideology. Unlearn it. Please. It directly affects us trans women, too.

I still, to this day, have internalized this ideology, and I cannot look at myself in the fucking mirror because I think to myself people see me as a threat, no one feels safe around me. As a direct result of 'all men are evil.'

It doesn't matter whether or not transfemmes are your intended target. You are hurting us just as much as you're hurting everyone else.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[katelyn-danger]

This whole thing is happening because our community straight up doesn't have good support networks, or good frameworks for how to build them. The disabled members of our community aren't dumb. They know that food and rent and clothing and medicine cost money that they don't have. That someone coming over to help them with their dishes and laundry has their own dishes and laundry at home. That their mental or physical health isn't improving, or isn't improving "fast enough" for them to get better before people get sick of taking care of them.

I've had several people reach out to me, claiming to be in a similar situation to the puppygirl from the article. Afraid that they're not doing enough. Afraid that their friends are about to dump and leave them. So far I have tried to give advice and encouragement, and despite thinking deeply about how to help them, I haven't been 100% satisfied with my responses. If that applies to you, please know that you're already doing your best. I know it's really really hard right now, and you're in a deep hole, trying to dig your way out of it. Even though my intentions were good, it was rude of me to toss down a little self-help leaflet onto your head and claim it's a rope to pull you out. Just keep taking it one day at a time.

As for the rest of us, the ones who aren't trapped by the weight of disability or mental illness or unemployment, we need to be working every single day to build out networks of mutual aid. The girls who are currently disabled need us to have better tools to help them. We also need those systems for ourselves. We're all getting old, we all are at risk of job loss, or injury, or traumatic events. We need food distros, and medical collectives, and clothing swaps, and volunteer mechanics and IT professionals. There's work to be done, but we're disconnected from each other, disorganized. We form polycules and "found families" as poor imitations of support networks, reaching for them because they're easy tools to use. But they're not good tools.

First of all, they're not mutual, automatic, or impersonal. They rely on everyone being on good terms with each other. As if asking someone to prove their worth before feeding them is only unhealthy when the state does it, but is somehow okay if you're doing it to a friend or partner. They're also not organized. Unless you have a team of friends who are meeting monthly to discuss availability, resources, address burnout, and devise a plan of care... you're flying blind. Even just having a group chat for it puts you in a better position to help, and to be helped because your friends will know what to do for you.

People have done this before. There's resources out there for you to find and cobble together a solution that works. I certainly don't have all the answers, even if I am good at describing the shape of the problem. All I know is that it will be easier if we all work together on it. Think about what resources you would want your friends to have if they suddenly had to care for you over months. Think about what you need to make it easier to care for your friends. Think about how we can build resilient communities against mass disabling events like COVID, or mass firing events like AI layoffs. Work towards those solutions. You will need these networks eventually. Your friends need them now.

Good luck.

[maryoliveoil]

FUCK THIS LOL

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. 

At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.

Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.

The resulting experience will no longer look much like how people envision Google Search, which has long been defined by ranked links to websites that have the information you need.

With the revamped Search experience, the new search box simply expands to accommodate longer, more conversational queries, rather than making you decide what type of search experience or mode you want to choose at the start of your query. It will also have a new AI-powered query suggestion system that goes beyond autocomplete to help people craft more complex and nuanced queries, Google says.

Google’s AI Overviews will also allow users to ask follow-up questions in AI Mode, beginning Tuesday, the company noted.

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